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The book

6S Success: Home Edition

Fifty chapters walk the whole journey, from choosing your first room to a home that quietly keeps itself, then room by room through twenty playbooks. The friction meter reaches its goal at the end of the method.

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50 chapters9 parts20 room playbooks
A bright, renewed room after a six-S reset: clear surfaces, everything with a home

What is inside

One book, the whole method

Every S in order, plus the room-by-room playbooks that put it to work. Read it straight through, or open to the room you are resetting this weekend.

50
Chapters
9
Parts
20
Room playbooks
6
S's, in order

Table of contents

Nine parts, fifty chapters

The book follows the six S's in the order that works, bookended by discovering the method and preparing your first area, then keeping the gains for good.

Part One · Discovering 6S

  1. Why Some Homes Feel Effortless
  2. What Is 6S?
  3. The Six Steps That Transform Any Space
  4. How to Choose Your First Target Area

Part Two · Prepare

  1. The 6S Home Audit
  2. Photograph Before You Fix
  3. Define the Purpose of the Area

Part Three · Sort

  1. Sort: Remove What Does Not Belong
  2. Necessary vs. Unnecessary
  3. Red Tags, Holding Areas, and Sorter's Remorse
  4. What to Donate, Sell, Store, Recycle, or Throw Away

Part Four · Straighten

  1. Straighten: A Place for Everything
  2. Store by Frequency of Use
  3. Visual Controls for the Home
  4. The Room Map

Part Five · Shine

  1. Shine: Cleaning as Inspection
  2. Shine Targets and Assignments
  3. Cleaning Methods That Actually Work
  4. The 15-Minute Reset

Part Six · Safety

  1. Safety: Protect People First
  2. Find and Remove Hazards
  3. Improve Overall Safety

Part Seven · Standardize

  1. Standardize: The Best Way We Know Today
  2. Checklists, Schedules, and Responsibilities
  3. Pictures, Storyboards, and Visual Standards

Part Eight · Sustain

  1. Sustain: Keeping the Gains
  2. 6S Audits That Do Not Feel Like Inspections
  3. Family Problem Solving
  4. Daily 6S Times
  5. Your Next 6S Event

Part Nine · The Room Playbooks

Twenty chapters, one per room. Each breaks the room into its micro zones and walks them in order, with the exact product types the work needs. Every chapter has a companion section on this site. The free online edition covers chapters 1 to 30, so Part Nine is in the full book only.

  1. The Entryway
  2. The Kitchen
  3. The Pantry
  4. The Dining Room
  5. The Living Room
  6. The Family Room
  7. The Primary Bedroom
  8. The Guest Bedroom
  9. The Kids Bedroom
  10. The Nursery
  11. The Primary Bathroom
  12. The Guest Bathroom
  13. The Laundry Room
  14. The Home Office
  15. The Garage
  16. The Workshop
  17. The Mudroom
  18. The Hall Closet
  19. The Stair Landing
  20. The Patio or Deck
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Formats and editions

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Print for the shelf, digital for the phone, or the companion field guide for the room you are resetting right now.

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